Vivienne Dick Read Bio Collapse
Vivienne Dick (b. 1950, Donegal) is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker. She attended University College Dublin before moving to New York in the 1970s, where her early films helped define the No Wave cinema movement. She later became a member of the London Film-Makers’ Co-op. In 2014, the Irish Times called her “one of the most important filmmakers Ireland has produced.” Dick taught Film in GMIT Galway for many years and and was visiting faculty in many colleges including Goldsmith, L’École des hautes études Paris, Bergen Academy of Art & Design, Glasgow University, and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has received a number of Production Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and her work has shown extensively at festivals and museums in Europe. Dick has had retrospectives at Crawford, Cork (2009), Tate Modern, London (2010), and IMMA, Dublin (2017.) She is a member of Aosdana and has work in the collections of the Irish Film Archive, Anthology Archives, the BFI, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.